That's some admirably... optimistic conjecture on the writer's part.
US Politics XXIV: Your Country Sucks
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Add Grover Norquist's institution to the list.
womanfish
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Also looks like at least 7 other members of Congress. And I can’t believe it, but it seems like they are all Republicans. I’m really surprised
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womanfish
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Dem Senate Q2 fundraising so far are all massive, and big increases from past quarters even amid Covid environment w limits in person
Bullock $7.7mil (more than doubled previous quarter)
Gideon $9mil ($2m increase)
Cunningham $7.4mil ($3m increase)
Harrison $13.9mil (nearly double previous)
Bullock $7.7mil (more than doubled previous quarter)
Gideon $9mil ($2m increase)
Cunningham $7.4mil ($3m increase)
Harrison $13.9mil (nearly double previous)
MrsSpringsteen
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And TB12, Tom Brady's company. Ridiculous, he could singlehandedly keep that company afloat and pay all the employees. Offensive, his company should pay that back.
MrsSpringsteen
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CNN obtained a copy of Mary Trump's book. She calls him a sociopath (she is a clinical psychologist) and also alleges that the family paid someone to take Trump's SATs for him. I find both things completely believable.
I can't wait to read this book
Anyone else seen all the videos of the Q people taking the oath ?
It’s really cheesy but same time kinda sinister as it feels like they’re being programmed to take action whenever Q gives the signal (or Trump). It’s also a weird spectrum of society that’s a part of it. Majority is the MAGA crowd but you’ve got some liberal anti vaxxers that have overlapped. Basically a army of Karen’s
It’s really cheesy but same time kinda sinister as it feels like they’re being programmed to take action whenever Q gives the signal (or Trump). It’s also a weird spectrum of society that’s a part of it. Majority is the MAGA crowd but you’ve got some liberal anti vaxxers that have overlapped. Basically a army of Karen’s
I saw Mike Flynn do it. That's all I needed to see.
Jerry Dunk
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The Supreme Court has dropped another absolute turd of a ruling this morning. It's a 7-2 walloping. Sotomayor is the only justice with any sense of morality.
DaveC
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oh yeah he's definitely gonna be splitting that progressive vote lmao.
womanfish
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LuckyNumber7
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He most certainly can cut into the disaffected black vote whose vote for him would be a protest.
DaveC
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nobody who was going to seriously vote for joe biden prior to last week is going to switch to casting a write-in protest vote for kanye west.
he's going to forget all about being president two weeks after his album comes out anyways. this is just kanye doing crazy shit to get his name in the news right before his album comes out. he always does this with every album. he's not going to file any paperwork to be on ballots or hire real campaign staff or do anything else that actually costs money and effort. absolutely nobody should be taking this seriously.
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LuckyNumber7
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DaveC
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his MO with nearly every album release is to do or say something outrageous to get people talking about him. the slavery comments were less than a month before ye came out. he tweeted a bunch of shit defending bill cosby like a week before the life of pablo came out. he called himself "the voice of a generation" and triggered a million boomer music journalists a month before 808s and heartbreak.
i think it's fairly safe to assume that this is just more of the same.
womanfish
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Read through the thread. Is this the first time in history Americans are using... gasp... common sense?!?!
https://mobile.twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1280879369112748032
https://mobile.twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1280879369112748032
LuckyNumber7
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DaveC
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if he's going out on a tour to promote his album anyways he's not going to hold political rallies and give speeches to try to get people to vote for him, he's going to play concerts and charge concert ticket prices.
of course that won't preclude him from making dumb political rant-speeches during those concerts. but obviously it's a little harder to get a kanye west concert live on CNN than a joe biden speech.
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To be fair our current president ran for office as a publicity stunt and, well...
LuckyNumber7
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That’s my point. Not to say West would gain serious traction as a third party this late in the game, but there’s no reason to think he can’t possibly disrupt the system.
Black women, the most reliable Democratic voting bloc by far, are pragmatic and intelligent voters and I don't see him peeling off any of them.
Kanye is mentally ill and needs help and good people around him. He appears to have neither.
Kanye is mentally ill and needs help and good people around him. He appears to have neither.
womanfish
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Something else that has changed since 2016. The Dem party has/is consolidating.
https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1280862834516275200
Biden emerges from a contested Democratic primary with no serious threat on his left flank, according to Times/Siena polling in the battlegrounds.
Sanders supporters back him 87-4
Warren supporters back him 96-0
Warren supporters even back Biden against Trump by a wider margin than Biden primary supporters.
I would say this would be another strike against Warren as the VP.
Also, while there are a lot of Bernie supporters out there that may sit it out or vote third party or write in. The high percentage of them reside in very blue states. 20 percent in California, and almost the same in NY.
https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1280862834516275200
Biden emerges from a contested Democratic primary with no serious threat on his left flank, according to Times/Siena polling in the battlegrounds.
Sanders supporters back him 87-4
Warren supporters back him 96-0
Warren supporters even back Biden against Trump by a wider margin than Biden primary supporters.
I would say this would be another strike against Warren as the VP.
Also, while there are a lot of Bernie supporters out there that may sit it out or vote third party or write in. The high percentage of them reside in very blue states. 20 percent in California, and almost the same in NY.
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womanfish
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Totally agree. I think people like us (heavily white, middle age, middle class) forget that black voters are not just high percentage voters, but are pragmatic, informed and bullshit resistant. They look at the bigger picture, and their vote is calculated differently than any of us can even realize. Do they love Biden more than anything? Some yes, but most, know that Biden not only was Obama's right hand man, but that he was the candidate the white suburban voters and white women could support. They are playing chess, while so many younger, white, privileged voters are playing connect 4.
womanfish
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Biden is on track to break the Obama/Clinton 2008 record (17.5m votes each) for most votes received in a party primary.
Now in "a perfect world land" 2020 election edition:
If Biden can squeak out a win in Texas and win Florida like he and Obama did twice, there’s a serious possibility Trump doesn’t win a single state worth more than 11 electoral votes.
Now in "a perfect world land" 2020 election edition:
If Biden can squeak out a win in Texas and win Florida like he and Obama did twice, there’s a serious possibility Trump doesn’t win a single state worth more than 11 electoral votes.
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womanfish
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Fortunately, all they ruled was the president has authority to change the rule, meaning Biden can change it back in a few months if we all get out and vote.
Me thinks there has been some horse trading going on. The conservatives handing Trump some small victories in exchange for more consequential decisions against him. And remember, we should be getting the Trump tax return ruling this week. So two small "victories today" may be to soften the blow of what's to come.
womanfish
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Wait, you're telling me that Trump paid someone to take your SAT's? I don't believe it.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1281206354334625793
For the 1/100th time, the reason we show so many Cases, compared to other countries that haven’t done nearly as well as we have, is that our TESTING is much bigger and better. We have tested 40,000,000 people. If we did 20,000,000 instead, Cases would be half, etc. NOT REPORTED!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1281206354334625793
For the 1/100th time, the reason we show so many Cases, compared to other countries that haven’t done nearly as well as we have, is that our TESTING is much bigger and better. We have tested 40,000,000 people. If we did 20,000,000 instead, Cases would be half, etc. NOT REPORTED!
LuckyNumber7
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For the 1/100th time, I’m not telling 99% of the truth.
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